New journal to focus on environmental law
By Carolyn Lamberson
Of the Emerald
University law school students have publish
ed the inaugural edition of the Journal of En
vironmental Law and Litigation, a publication
that focuses on both practical and theoretical
aspects of environmental law. said third-year law
studen* Keith Bartholomew, the journal’s editor
in-chief.
Most law reviews focus on just theoretical
aspects of law, Bartholomew said. This journal
differs not only in focus, but in those who con
tribute to the journal as well, he said.
‘‘l,aw reviews by and large publish mainly
works by academians — in fact, almost exclusive
ly. We're trying to get contributions from the
practicing bar as well,” Bartholomew explained,
adding that more than half of the articles in the
first editon were written by practitioners.
The first edition was published through a
$6,400 seed grant from the Incidental Fee Com
mittee in October 1985 and came about as an
outgrowth of the law school’s Environmental and
Natural Resources Law Program, said Michael
Axline, an assistant law professor and one of the
journal’s faculty advisers.
“The University of Oregon law school, of
course, has the leading environmental and
natural resources law program in the entire coun
try, and this journal is a natural outgrowth of this
school's commitment to environmental and
natural resources law,” Axline said. “It's also an
outgrowth of the annual Western Public Interest
Law Conference, the premier environmental law
conference in the country.”
Putting together an academic journal is a
complicated process, and part of the reason it
took a year and a half to complete the final pro
duct was the fact that the staff was starting from
scratch, Bartholomew said.
"When you're starting from new, you’re not
reinventing the wheel, you're inventing it for the
first time,” he said. "We really did start from
ground zero.”
Executive Editor Xavier l,avoipierre said the
staff has been meticulous in its editing to provide
some legitimacy for the journal.
"We want scholars to buy the journal, and
we want people who read it to be able to rely on
all the research that’s in there." he said.
The staff believes the journal will become a
valuable source of information in the area of en
vironmental law for practicing attorneys and
others interested in environmental issues, Bar
tholomew said.
"There are a lot of people in Oregon —
citizen groups who are interested in environmen
tal law — and they are extremely sophisticated."
he said. "I don’t think there’s anything in here
they couldn’t get an entire grip on."
Pianist ^°nt'nue^ *r°m pa^e ia
Roan, along with Bernard Dobroski, dean of
the University music school, also managed to get
Berman to conduct a master class at the Univer
sity’s Beall Concert Hall. The master class is the
only one he will conduct on this tour and the first
one he has ever taught in the United States.
It wasn’t difficult to get Berman to accept the
invitation, Dobroski said.
“Often the more distinguished the artist, the
more willing they are to work with young ar
tists,’’ Dobroski said.
A master class is a public lesson in which a
student, usually already an accomplished musi
cian, performs for the master and then is criti
qued, Dobroski explained. He noted that a master
class can take several forms. The master may criti
que the musician’s interpretation of a whole piece
or he may work with the musician to perfect
specific phrases or sections of the piece.
The students chosen for the master class with
Berman — John Maddy, Meijane Quong, Brett
Anderson and Robert King — are all doctoral can
didates in piano performance studying at the
University.
"I was first introduced to his music by a
recording of his work. I never dreamed that I
would be studying with him just a few years
laters,” King said. “He is world class.”
Berman’s instruction “was very deliberate
and very distinct." Quong said.
Berman listened patiently as Quong played a
selection of Alexander Scriabin’s “Piano Concer
to in F-sharp Minor, Opus 20.” Then he went to
work politely and jovially dissecting Quong’s
technique, demonstrating how he would have her
play the piece.
“It was frustrating having to talk through an
interpreter, but the interpreter was marvelous.
You could see all these things coming out on his
face, but you had to wait for the interpreter,” she
said.
“He does not overemphasize details, but the
integration of details — he emphasizes integra
tion of the emotional and intellectual aspects of
the piece. This makes the piece merge into one
concept," Anderson said
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ween the knowledge industry of the University
and an applied use of that knowledge.
And Gleason assured legislators that city of
ficials understand the responsibility they were
given when the governor said he supported the
research park, not to benefit the Eugene metro
area, but to benefit all of the southern Willamette
Valley.
Besides faculty salaries and research park
support, the neglected Centers of Excellence are
an important investment the Legislature should
complete this session, Moseley said. The
Legislature appropriated $1.5 million in lottery
funds in 1985 to start Centers of Excellence in the
University’s material science and bio-technology
departments.
Moseley said five new faculty members were
hired to work in the Centers of Excellence in
1985. “The first five people we hired under the
Centers of Excellence program received the
Presidential Young Investigator Award.”
Moseley said. With the PYIA, “they were all
designated as among the very elite in their areas
of research,” he said.
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